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<blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 4064640" data-attributes="member: 1132"><p>I feel like we're overdue for posting a refresher on the timeless AR vs. AK vs. Mosin Nagant Comparison:</p><p></p><h3>AR-15 V.S. AK-47 V.S. MOSIN-NAGANT</h3><h3>A very long internet classic:</h3><p>AR15: You can pick off prairie dogs at 300 meters all day long</p><p>AK47: You can pick off a deer pretty easy at 300 meters</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You get out of your truck, see an elk on top of a hill, and realize you really can use iron sights that far.</p><p></p><p>AR15: You measure your misses by sub MOA measurements</p><p>AK47: You miss and, and aim a bit lower this time.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Even if you miss the shockwave of the bullet will kill the animal.</p><p></p><p>AR15: You are careful to keep in clean in the field.</p><p>AK47: You don’t worry so much about some dirt getting in it.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: It still has gritty grease inside it from when the Finnish army put it into storage.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Your bayonet will do an alright job of butchering your kill if needed.</p><p>AK47: The bayonet doubles as a decent hunting knife.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Your bayonet can be used to spit roast an entire pig.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Nice and light for carrying over obstructions.</p><p>AK47: Handy package for carrying over obstructions.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You can pole vault over obstructions.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Can’t run dry or you get seizure.</p><p>AK47: Can run dry, but may cause laquered ammo to stick in chamber.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Just handling the bolt gives it enough oil to operate smoothly.</p><p></p><p>What your wife does after she finds out you spent the tax refund / stimulus payment on a –</p><p>AR15: She yells at you for spending the whole thing on a plastic varmint rifle.</p><p>AK47: She is disappointed at what an ugly rifle you spent half of it on.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: She doesn’t even notice the Mosin-Nagant because of the diamond ring you got her with all the left over cash.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Melts IN the fire</p><p>AK47: Starts ON fire</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Starts THE fire</p><p></p><p>AR15: With a custom barrel, Varmint Scope, and gunsmith trigger job, you can vaporize prairie dogs at 600 yards.</p><p>AK47: With a good rain, you can wait hidden in the mud at the side of a watering hole and wait for the game to come to you for a shot within 10 yards.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: With a solid shooting position, you can hit that deer on the other side of the valley… and recover the bullet in the tree it was standing in front of.</p><p></p><p>AR15: You can buy 100 round magazines that require dry-carbon lubricant.</p><p>AK47: You can do push-ups on your 30 round steel mag (Saw this in a SPETSNATZ documentary).</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You can use the buttstock to pound in a tent stake and if you don’t have tent stakes, the bayonet will work as one.</p><p></p><p>AR-15: Carried by elite special forces and highly-trained American soldiers</p><p>AK-47: Carried by illiterate peons and unwilling conscripts.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant-Nagant: Carried by Vassily Zaitsev.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Might just stop that charging terrorist with a three round burst</p><p>AK47: Would stop the terrorist in his tracks</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Would stop the charging terrorist, his three buddies, and blow up the IED in the next block from the shockwave of the bullet…</p><p></p><p>AR15: Shoots a .22.</p><p>AK47: Shoots a carbine round.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Shoots a cannonball.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Shot by the free world</p><p>AK47: Shot at the free world</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Almost free to shoot</p><p></p><p>AR15: Shoot it in the air it goes a mile</p><p>AK47: Shoot it in the air it goes 1/2 a mile</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Shoot it in the air and someone in Berlin gets hit by a bullet.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Made out of used cars and recycled milk jugs</p><p>AK47: Made out of oil rigs and packing crates</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Made out of old water pipe and goat carts</p><p></p><p>AR15: Sounds like a pop gun</p><p>AK47: Sounds like a machine gun</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Sounds like the Trinity Atomic Blast</p><p></p><p>AR15: Sometimes mistaken for a toy</p><p>AK47: Sometimes mistaken for random parts</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Sometimes mistaken for an artillery piece, or an anti-aircraft gun</p><p></p><p>AR15: Pray (it works) and spray</p><p>AK47: Spray and pray(you hit something)</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: The hammer of God</p><p></p><p>AR15: Makes grown men laugh.</p><p>AK47: Makes grown men cry.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Makes grown men incontinent.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Finicky when dirty.</p><p>AK47: Still works when dirty.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Arrives Dirty from the Distributor.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Don’t run over it…it will Break</p><p>AK47: Run over it, it still shoots.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Run over it and it will flatten your Tires!</p><p></p><p>AR15: Makes a Pop when fired</p><p>AK47: Makes a Boom when fired</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: What the hell was that ???</p><p></p><p>AR15: Ok, I got One!</p><p>AK47: Ok, I have 3 different ones.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Ok, I have Mosin-itis and have 14 and looking for More….</p><p></p><p>AR15: Makes a small hole in a tree</p><p>AK47: Makes a medium sized hole in a tree</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Blows tree in half making firewood available.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Kills rabbits and coyotes</p><p>AK47: Kills pigs and small deer</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: If you can’t kill it with a Mosin-Nagant, it can’t be killed</p><p></p><p>AR15: Safe to stow in poly bags</p><p>AK47: Safe to stow in a rice paddy</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Safe to stow in a landfill</p><p></p><p>AR15: 100 round beta c drum mags you can load with a speed loader</p><p>AK47: 75 round drum magazine you have to reload individually by pressing a lever</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You can store 20 of them in a drum with about 1000 rounds on stripper clips</p><p></p><p>AR15: Has a nice Airsoft copy</p><p>AK47: Has a nice Airsoft copy</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Who needs Airsoft when you can fire blanks.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Makes a nice paperweight</p><p>AK47: Makes a nice doorstop</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Makes a nice baseball bat and way cheaper then aluminum</p><p></p><p>AR15: Loyal following of people that have more money than sense.</p><p>AK47: Loyal following of people that have a longer police record than the range of the rifle.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Loyal following of people that have more rounds of ammo than they got hairs on all family members’ heads combined.</p><p></p><p>AR-15: Your enemies will giggle</p><p>AK-47: Your enemies will take cover and swear as they ready their weapons</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Your enemies will flatten themselves to the ground and offer up prayers of salvation to whatever god they believe in…then they will die.</p><p></p><p>AR-15: Drop it from ten feet and it shatters.</p><p>AK-47: Drop it from ten feet and it still works.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Drop it from ten feet and it’s more lethal than a lawn dart.</p><p></p><p>AR-15: You can melt it with a magnifying glass.</p><p>AK-47: Under a magnifying glass, you can see the ingrained dirt.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Under a magnifying glass, you can see the soaked-in BLOOD.</p><p></p><p>AR-15: Safe, Semiautomatic, Full-Auto (more like full-JAM)</p><p>AK-47: Safe(dubious), Semiautomatic, Full-Auto</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Kill, Maim, Destroy</p><p></p><p>AR-15: When you run out of ammo, duck for cover and spend 15 minutes cleaning and reloading</p><p>AK-47: You could probably rig it up to fire chain-linked ammo</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: When you run out of ammo (never) you can shoot chaff and langrage from it (wikipedia that)</p><p></p><p>AR-15: My daddy bought me this weapon for my birthday</p><p>AK-47: I saved two weeks’ paychecks to buy this.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: I think it was free…</p><p></p><p>AR-15: My rifle floated away in the flood</p><p>AK-47: My rifle was submerged for three weeks by the flood and still works</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: I fired my rifle and the flood waters parted…</p><p></p><p>AR15: You keep your bayonet in the kitchen because it is a good steak knife</p><p>AK47: You keep your bayonet in your toolbox because it is a good wire cutter</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You no longer fix your bayonet in the house because the last time you did you poked a hole in the ceiling when you stood up</p><p></p><p>AR15: For $1000 you can get one</p><p>AK47: For $1000 you can get two and 300 rounds of ammo</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: For $1000 you can get 16 of them plus a Bulgarian armory’s worth of surplus ammo</p><p></p><p>AR15: Can start brush fires with incendiary ammunition.</p><p>AK47: Can start brush fires by dropping it after the handguard catches fire.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Can start brush fires by firing from anything lower than a kneeling position.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Built with custom parts, nice trigger, all the bells and whistles $1500+</p><p>AK47: Modified with aftermarket and 1,000 rounds of ammo not even $1500</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Stock, with 1,000 rounds maybe $300, meaning you get $1200 to spend on more beer</p><p></p><p>AR15: Takes a few men out in a sweeper movement</p><p>AK47: Takes most men out in a sweeper movement</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Shoot one the sonic boom will handle the rest</p><p></p><p>AR15: Used in negotiations</p><p>AK47: Reason for negotiations</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Negotiator</p><p></p><p>AR15: I think I felt it kick</p><p>AK47: Kinda like a 20 guage</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Dislocation</p><p>Mosin-Nagant with heavy ball: Where’s my freaking shoulder</p><p></p><p>AR15: Takes 3 rounds to take out your enemy</p><p>AK47: takes 30 rounds sprayed and hopefully you hit your target</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: 1 shot, 50 kills</p><p></p><p>AR15: More options than a custom Rolls-Royce. No two guns are alike.</p><p>AK47: Same number of options as a Toyota Corolla. Most guns look alike.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Options: You want a bayonet with that?</p><p>The limits of customizing a-</p><p></p><p>AR15: How much $ you got.</p><p>AK47: What you can find in the Tapco catalog.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: How much duct tape Bubba’s got.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Such light recoil, you could put on over your balls and fire.</p><p>AK47: Recoil manageable enough for anyone to use it.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Recoil that registers as small tremors in the earth itself.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Bullet starts tumbling the moment it meets sufficient resistance, like paper</p><p>AK47: Bullet will continue trajectory until it hits something solid, like a deer</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: It keeps going and going and going….</p><p></p><p>AR15: You probably drive a Lexus</p><p>AK47: If you’re lucky to possess a vehicle, it’s referred to as a “Technical”</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You hang truck-balls off your trailer hitch, and you’re proud of them.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Lots of fancy optics available</p><p>AK47: You can bolt some stuff to the side</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Who cares about optics when the barrel is long enough to smack the enemy over the head without even leaving your foxhole.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Used by special forces to kill terrorists</p><p>AK47: Used by revolutionaries and any two bit nation’s illiterate conscripts to kill each other</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Used by Simo Häyhä to kill Russian conscripts</p><p></p><p>AR15: Requires over 1000 rounds to break in</p><p>AK47: May need some breaking in</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: The stripper clips require more breaking in</p><p></p><p>AR15: Can take down smaller sized game.</p><p>AK47: Can take down average sized game.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Can take down satellites.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Invented 50 years ago by a consummate engineer</p><p>AK47: Invented 60 years ago by wounded tank sergeant</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Invented 117 years ago by two drunks on a budget.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Star wars</p><p>AK47: Holy wars</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Class wars</p><p></p><p>AR15: Makes small holes</p><p>AK47: Makes big holes</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Makes black holes</p><p></p><p>AR15: Nice lightweight ammo can be carried in quantity.</p><p>AK47: You can carry a chest pouch with lots of mags with no problem.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Ammo is also used in tanks, and larger artillery pieces.</p><p>Domestic uses of the bayonet:</p><p></p><p>AR15: You affix it to your rifle and use it as a dibble to plant tulip bulbs in the garden.</p><p>AK47: You affix it to your rifle and use it to trim low-hanging tree branches.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You affix it to your rifle, accidentally stab it into the ceiling and bring down a square foot of plaster, and spend the next week sleeping on the couch because your wife is pissed off at you.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Comes in Pink Hello Kitty and Barbie</p><p>AK47: Comes in Pink Hello Kitty</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: What’s pink?</p><p></p><p>AR15: Iran-Contra was a cover-up</p><p>AK47: Afghanistan (1980) was a cover-up</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Chernobyll was a cover-up</p><p>You call the thing with the ammo in it a “clip” and…</p><p></p><p>AR15: Your buddies glare at you and don’t speak to you for a month.</p><p>AK47: Your buddies smile at you with their gold teeth and “blast another cap.”</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Your buddies smile at you because it’s one of the few times you all get to call something a “clip”… and be right.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Clean with fancy lubes and solvents with special tools.</p><p>AK47: Clean? In Soviet Russia AK clean you!</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Squirt some Windex down the bore. Ready for another 500 rounds tomorrow!</p><p></p><p>AR15: You can be an expert with this rifle after basic training</p><p>AK47: You can be an expert with this rifle after a seminar at the Holiday Inn on AKs</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You can be an expert with this rifle after spending 30 minutes on the internet reading forums, and watching youtube videos</p><p></p><p>AR15: Can shoot a squirrel and have a great meal</p><p>AK47: Can shoot a squirrel and have some meat left to eat.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: There is a tail left around here somewhere.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Puts some countries air force to shame</p><p>AK47: Used by countries who can’t afford an air force</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Could be used to take down an air force</p><p></p><p>AR15: Shoot one and you’ll be owning one soon!</p><p>AK47: Shoot one and you will buy some high capacity magazines and 1000 rounds of ammo</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Shoot one and you will own 15 and want another!</p><p></p><p>AR15: Goes pew pew pew</p><p>AK47: Goes pow pow pow</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Goes BOOOOOOOM!</p><p></p><p>AR15: Made by a stoned Eugene</p><p>AK47: Made by an injured Kalashnikov</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Made by a drunken Belgian and a crazy Ivan</p><p></p><p>Owners drink of choice</p><p>AR15: Cognac</p><p>AK47: Malt liquor</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Brake cleaner</p><p></p><p>AR15: Makes a tiny hole with no fragmentation or undue extra injury, in accordance with the Geneva Convention</p><p>AK47: Makes a big hole and sometimes flings severed body parts around, not in accordance with the Geneva Convention</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: One of the reasons the Geneva Convention was written</p><p></p><p>AR15: Can shoot it off your head and it won’t kill you</p><p>AK47: Shoot it off your head and you die</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Shoot if from your shoulder and you need it popped back into place</p><p></p><p>AR15: Used to kill Enemies of the State.</p><p>AK47: Used by Enemies of the State.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Enemy at the Gates.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Good for shooting poodles.</p><p>AK47: Good for shooting enemies of the state</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Good for shooting light armored vehicles</p><p></p><p>AR15: Keeps gunsmiths in business</p><p>AK47: Keeps drug dealers and terrorists in business</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Keeps Chiropractors in business</p><p></p><p>AR15: Built like a Toy.</p><p>AK47: Built like a Sewing Machine.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Built like a Tank!</p><p></p><p>AR15: Too much Plastic.</p><p>AK47: Too Much Sheet metal.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Too much of everything!</p><p></p><p>AR15: stays in the Vault.</p><p>AK47: not allowed in the vault.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Can be used to Pole Vault!</p><p></p><p>AR15: In your Heart you think it’s ugly.</p><p>AR15: In your Heart you know it’s ugly.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You’re afraid to call it ugly!</p><p></p><p>AR15: It doesn’t go anywhere near <shudder> water… Unless you’re drinking Evian</p><p>AK47: If water touches it, it would mistake it for a cleaning solvent and fall apart</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Row-row-row your boat, gently down the Volga…</p><p></p><p>AR15: If it gets in the Mekong river, you need to clean it before firing.</p><p>AK47: If it gets in the Mekong river, shake the water out before firing.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Used as an oar to paddle up and down the Mekong river</p><p></p><p>AR15: Used to attack soldiers building a bridge across the Mekong</p><p>AK47: Used to protect soldiers building a bridge across the Mekong</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Used to actually build the bridge across the Mekong.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Plastics make it possible</p><p>AK47: Sheet metal make it possible</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Driftwood make it possible</p><p></p><p>AR15: Nice useful little round.</p><p>AK47: Very functional round.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Anti Tank Round</p><p></p><p>AR15: Useful against unarmored foe</p><p>AK47: Useful against armored foe</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Useful against foe on the other side of the battlefield!</p><p></p><p>AR15: Useful for hosing down forward edge of the battle area…</p><p>AK47: Useful for hosing down sky over forward edge of the battle area…</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Useful for hosing down rear of the battle area, enemy reserves and basic training camps at home…</p><p></p><p>AR15: Thousands of moving parts, held together by hundreds of bolts, screws, and precision welds.</p><p>AK47: Several dozen moving parts, held together by a few screws and some drunken Ivan’s light-sabering with an acetylene torch.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: TWO MOVING PARTS. TWO SCREWS. .</p><p></p><p>AR15: Owner votes for John McCain</p><p>AK47: Owner prays for Barack Hussein Osama</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Owner can overthrow the government no matter who becomes president.</p><p></p><p>AR15: One tenth the firepower at 10 times the price</p><p>AK47: Half the Firepower at twice the price</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: 10 times the firepower at one tenth the price</p><p></p><p>AR15: Turns little rocks into pebbles</p><p>AK47: Turns big rocks into little rocks</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Makes molehills out of mountains</p><p></p><p>AR15: One inch groups at 100 yards.</p><p>AK47: Five to six inch groups at 100 yards.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Muzzle is one inch from target at 100 yards.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Designs drawn on blueprint paper by stoner and a team of experts in a R&D facility</p><p>AK47: Designs drawn on notebook paper by Kalashnikov in a Soviet hospital</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Designs drawn on cocktail napkins by a drunken Sergei Mosin-Nagant in a bar</p><p></p><p>AR15: Clean with a bunch of cloths, patches, picks, brushes and don’t loose the small parts. Clean every 100 rounds.</p><p>AK47: Run a patch down the barrel, wipe out the chamber every few months.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Throw it in the dishwasher every couple years.</p><p></p><p>AR15: New shooters love it because of good ergonomics and light recoil.</p><p>AK47: New shooters love it because of light recoil.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: New shooters required to sign a waiver-absolving owner of physical damage incurred from recoil</p><p></p><p>AR15: Usually equipped with flash hider to reduce muzzle flash.</p><p>AK47: Can be equipped with flash hider to reduce muzzle flash.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Muzzle flash can be used to summon the mother ship.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Can be used to defend home against crooks</p><p>AK47: Can be used to defend Oil Tanker against Pirates</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Can Replace one of the Deck Guns on the Kirov Class Battle cruiser</p><p></p><p>AR-15: Defenders</p><p>AK-47: Invaders</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Victors</p><p></p><p>AR15: High cost, high maintenance.</p><p>AK47: Low cost, low maintenance.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: What are these cost and maintenance things you speak of?</p><p></p><p>AR15: Your rifle takes a few hours to sight in, starting at 50 yard and moving up to 200, making minute adjustments with a small screwdriver.</p><p>AK47: You slide your rear sight around until you hit the target.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You hit your rifle with a hammer to sight it.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Arm of the free world</p><p>AK47: Arm of everybody else</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Arm of Chuck Norris</p><p></p><p>AR15: Politicians fear it.</p><p>AK47: Media fears it.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Zombies fear it!</p><p></p><p>At an indoor range.</p><p>AR15: Gets people’s attention because of it’s wonderful accuracy.</p><p>AK47: Gets people’s attention because of it’s rugged reliability.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Gets people’s attention because muzzle flash sets off sprinkler system!</p><p>As for accurizing.</p><p></p><p>AR15: You buy match grade components installed by professional gunsmith and spend thousands of dollars.</p><p>AK47: You buy GOOD ammo and optics and spend hundreds of dollars.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You use an empty soda can, some sand paper and spend seven bucks!</p><p></p><p>AR15: You can put one hole in a paper target at 100 meters with 30 rounds.</p><p>AK47: You can put a .30″ hole through 12” of oak, if you can hit it.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You can knock down everyone else’s target with the shock wave of your bullet going downrange.</p><p></p><p>AR15: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a great whiffle bat.</p><p>AK47: When out of ammo your rifle will nominally pass as a club.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, pike, boat oar, tent pole, or firewood.</p><p></p><p>AR15: What’s recoil?</p><p>AK47: Recoil is manageable, even fun.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Recoil is often used to relocate shoulders thrown out by the previous shot.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of minute of angle.</p><p>AK47: Your sight adjustment goes to “10”, and you’ve never bothered moving it.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Your sight adjustment goes to 12 miles and you’ve actually tried it.</p><p></p><p>AR15: After a day at the range, you detail strip your rifle and thoroughly clean and lubricate it with only the best products.</p><p>AK47: After a day of shooting out back you run a quick patch through the bore and throw your rifle in the back of your truck.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Cleaning….and maintenance?</p><p></p><p>AR15: Millennium Falcon</p><p>AK47: Star Destroyer</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: The Death Star</p><p></p><p>As for accessories.</p><p>AR15: You have a never ending list of high dollar tacticool accessories.</p><p>AK47: You have a never ending list of Chinese made tacticool accessories.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You have carry strap and ammo what more you need comrade?</p><p></p><p>AR15: Cost a lot of money</p><p>AK47: Cost some money</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: free with purchase of bayonet</p><p></p><p>AR15: Backordered.</p><p>AK47: Backordered.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Mail ordered.</p><p></p><p>AR15: When out of ammo you would rather die than risk damaging your $1200 rifle buy using it as a club.</p><p>AK47: When out of ammo your rifle makes a nice club.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Your rifle is a club that can shoot people.</p><p></p><p>AR15: When on patrol in Vietnam ammo is so light you can carry around 900 rounds of ammo with you.</p><p>AK47: When patrolling your warlord’s territory, you carry all the ammo you need in the back of a technical.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: When sent to battle at Stalingrad you are only issued a stripper clip of ammunition and told that you would find your rifle laying on the ground.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Got it by joining army</p><p>AK47: Got it with one paycheck</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Got it by saving beer cans</p><p>On prairie dogs:</p><p></p><p>AR15: You sit back with your buddies poopin them all day long 651hits 3 misses.</p><p>AK47: You and another person go to a dog-town fire 4,000 rounds and each get one be cause they were 8 feet away and deaf.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You go with 3 other people get the first shot at the first P-dog you see and wipe out the entire colony, leaving a crater that the people who find it claim was a meteor impact.</p><p>Regarding muzzle blast:</p><p></p><p>AR15: Makes a popping sound that is hardly noticed at a public range.</p><p>AK47: Makes a hearty boom that usually gets noticed at a public range.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Makes the Earth tremble and two guys in Bavaria look at each other and ask “vat da hell vas dat?!”</p><p></p><p>AR15: Looks like a toy</p><p>AK47: Looks cobbled together from spare parts</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Looks like a Kentucky Musket of DOOM!</p><p></p><p>AR15: Sworn at by three generations of American soldiers and Marines</p><p>AK47: Brought back as a proof of kill by Carlos Hathcock</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Carried by Samo Hayho, Vasili Ziatsev and feared on both sides of the battle line in the hands of snipers.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Flash suppressed, super stealthy</p><p>AK47: Why worry about stealth when you and your comrades can pour a wall of lead onto the enemy?</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Blinds anybody within 150 meters who’s not wearing welding goggles.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Can use the bayonet to whittle</p><p>AK47: Can use the bayonet to kill an enemy or butcher food</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Bayonet used to cut the sheet metal parts they use to make AR’s and AK’s</p><p></p><p>AR15: Underslung grenade launcher can take out a dug-in enemy at 300 meters</p><p>AK47: Underslung grenade launcher makes a lot of noise and a huge dirt crater</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Who needs grenades when your bullets are so big they can kill tanks?</p><p></p><p>AR15: Inspired by science fiction</p><p>AK47: Inspired by a need for a reliable, selectable-fire weapon</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Inspired by men with balls. Men with HUGE, HAIRY BALLS</p><p></p><p>AR15: Comprised of several hundred moving parts, usually falls victim to Murphy’s law</p><p>AK47: Comprised of as few moving parts as possible, almost impossible to break unless something goes REALLY REALLY WRONG (which might IMPROVE the accuracy)</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Has only one moving part, is held together by only two screws, and damned well outshoots both of the above.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Rust is your mortal enemy, you clean your gun five times a day.</p><p>AK47: Rust might become a problem in a few years, you clean your gun once a month.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Rust makes your rifle look more authentic.</p><p></p><p>AR15: You clean your rifle with molecularly engineered precision $1000-ounce synthetic lubricant</p><p>AK47: WD-40 is acceptable</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: If everything else runs out you can clean your rifle with your own piss</p><p>With regard to sound volume:</p><p></p><p>AR15: Suitable for use with a sound suppressor because its tiny bullet is already quiet.</p><p>AK47: No need for a sound suppressor because the enemy will be flat on the ground with their hands over their ears, hiding from the sheer volume of fire.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You don’t need a sound suppressor, because after the first shot the enemy will be totally deaf anyway.</p><p></p><p>How long does it take to learn to care for your rifle?</p><p>AR15: It will take a drill sergeant about a week to teach you what you need to know about how to disassemble, reassemble and maintain your rifle.</p><p>AK47: A good gunnery sergeant can teach you how to care for one in about 4 hours.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: You can learn how to take it apart and put it back together in about 15 minutes with the manual and a couple of YouTube videos in front of you.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Must be carefully cleaned every 100 rounds or so.</p><p>AK47: Only have to worry about cleaning if using Wolf ammo</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Cleaning? Consists of getting liquored up on vodka and peeing down the barrel to get rid of corrosive salts from milsurp primers.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Opened by pushing 2 pins</p><p>AK47: Opened with a swift kick</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Opened with a 2X4 and a ball peen hammer</p><p></p><p>AR15: Mostly made out of expensive polymers</p><p>AK47: Mostly made out of cheap stamped metal and particle board</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Mostly made out of “whatever the f*ck the comrades could find lying around the People’s Factory”</p><p></p><p>AR15: can probably put together a nice one, due to the popularity of ownership, for under $1,000</p><p>AK47: Can probably get a decent one, or refurbished one, for under $500.</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Can probably buy rifle, 440 rounds of ammo, and a case of Windex for under $200.</p><p></p><p>AR15: Won’t work unless you clean it every day</p><p>AK47: Should be cleaned at least once a year</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Was last cleaned by a Russian conscript in Berlin in 1945</p><p></p><p>AR15: If the firing pin breaks you send it to the factory for repairs</p><p>AK47: If the firing pin breaks you buy a new one</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: If the firing pin breaks you just screw it deeper into the bolt</p><p></p><p>AR15: Your accessories cost more than the rifle</p><p>AK47: All your accessories cost around $300</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: All your accessories come free with the rifle</p><p></p><p>AR15: Accountant’s Rifle</p><p>AK47: Factory Worker’s Rifle</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: If you can fill out an application, you can probably already afford it</p><p></p><p>AR15: Tax return will get it</p><p>AK47: Tax return will get you 2 plus mags</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Tax Return will get you a case plus enough ammo to last you till doomsday</p><p></p><p>AR15: Made when jet passenger flight was fairly regular</p><p>AK47: Made when knowing how to fly could make you an officer</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Made when hot air balloons were considered the ultimate flight technology</p><p></p><p>AR15: Buttstock is collapsible, only used to aid in shooting the rifle</p><p>AK47: Buttstock is also good for knocking some oppressor’s teeth out</p><p>Mosin-Nagant: Buttstock is good for use as a sledgehammer, crutch, club, or boat oar</p><p>—————</p><p><img src="https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/StuffYouKnow.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><strong>Now that you killed 2 hours reading that..</strong> head over to <a href="https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2009/11/04/stuff-you-know-if-you-have-an-ak-ar-mosin-nagant/" target="_blank">Stu</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glocktogo, post: 4064640, member: 1132"] I feel like we're overdue for posting a refresher on the timeless AR vs. AK vs. Mosin Nagant Comparison: [HEADING=2]AR-15 V.S. AK-47 V.S. MOSIN-NAGANT[/HEADING] [HEADING=2]A very long internet classic:[/HEADING] AR15: You can pick off prairie dogs at 300 meters all day long AK47: You can pick off a deer pretty easy at 300 meters Mosin-Nagant: You get out of your truck, see an elk on top of a hill, and realize you really can use iron sights that far. AR15: You measure your misses by sub MOA measurements AK47: You miss and, and aim a bit lower this time. Mosin-Nagant: Even if you miss the shockwave of the bullet will kill the animal. AR15: You are careful to keep in clean in the field. AK47: You don’t worry so much about some dirt getting in it. Mosin-Nagant: It still has gritty grease inside it from when the Finnish army put it into storage. AR15: Your bayonet will do an alright job of butchering your kill if needed. AK47: The bayonet doubles as a decent hunting knife. Mosin-Nagant: Your bayonet can be used to spit roast an entire pig. AR15: Nice and light for carrying over obstructions. AK47: Handy package for carrying over obstructions. Mosin-Nagant: You can pole vault over obstructions. AR15: Can’t run dry or you get seizure. AK47: Can run dry, but may cause laquered ammo to stick in chamber. Mosin-Nagant: Just handling the bolt gives it enough oil to operate smoothly. What your wife does after she finds out you spent the tax refund / stimulus payment on a – AR15: She yells at you for spending the whole thing on a plastic varmint rifle. AK47: She is disappointed at what an ugly rifle you spent half of it on. Mosin-Nagant: She doesn’t even notice the Mosin-Nagant because of the diamond ring you got her with all the left over cash. AR15: Melts IN the fire AK47: Starts ON fire Mosin-Nagant: Starts THE fire AR15: With a custom barrel, Varmint Scope, and gunsmith trigger job, you can vaporize prairie dogs at 600 yards. AK47: With a good rain, you can wait hidden in the mud at the side of a watering hole and wait for the game to come to you for a shot within 10 yards. Mosin-Nagant: With a solid shooting position, you can hit that deer on the other side of the valley… and recover the bullet in the tree it was standing in front of. AR15: You can buy 100 round magazines that require dry-carbon lubricant. AK47: You can do push-ups on your 30 round steel mag (Saw this in a SPETSNATZ documentary). Mosin-Nagant: You can use the buttstock to pound in a tent stake and if you don’t have tent stakes, the bayonet will work as one. AR-15: Carried by elite special forces and highly-trained American soldiers AK-47: Carried by illiterate peons and unwilling conscripts. Mosin-Nagant-Nagant: Carried by Vassily Zaitsev. AR15: Might just stop that charging terrorist with a three round burst AK47: Would stop the terrorist in his tracks Mosin-Nagant: Would stop the charging terrorist, his three buddies, and blow up the IED in the next block from the shockwave of the bullet… AR15: Shoots a .22. AK47: Shoots a carbine round. Mosin-Nagant: Shoots a cannonball. AR15: Shot by the free world AK47: Shot at the free world Mosin-Nagant: Almost free to shoot AR15: Shoot it in the air it goes a mile AK47: Shoot it in the air it goes 1/2 a mile Mosin-Nagant: Shoot it in the air and someone in Berlin gets hit by a bullet. AR15: Made out of used cars and recycled milk jugs AK47: Made out of oil rigs and packing crates Mosin-Nagant: Made out of old water pipe and goat carts AR15: Sounds like a pop gun AK47: Sounds like a machine gun Mosin-Nagant: Sounds like the Trinity Atomic Blast AR15: Sometimes mistaken for a toy AK47: Sometimes mistaken for random parts Mosin-Nagant: Sometimes mistaken for an artillery piece, or an anti-aircraft gun AR15: Pray (it works) and spray AK47: Spray and pray(you hit something) Mosin-Nagant: The hammer of God AR15: Makes grown men laugh. AK47: Makes grown men cry. Mosin-Nagant: Makes grown men incontinent. AR15: Finicky when dirty. AK47: Still works when dirty. Mosin-Nagant: Arrives Dirty from the Distributor. AR15: Don’t run over it…it will Break AK47: Run over it, it still shoots. Mosin-Nagant: Run over it and it will flatten your Tires! AR15: Makes a Pop when fired AK47: Makes a Boom when fired Mosin-Nagant: What the hell was that ??? AR15: Ok, I got One! AK47: Ok, I have 3 different ones. Mosin-Nagant: Ok, I have Mosin-itis and have 14 and looking for More…. AR15: Makes a small hole in a tree AK47: Makes a medium sized hole in a tree Mosin-Nagant: Blows tree in half making firewood available. AR15: Kills rabbits and coyotes AK47: Kills pigs and small deer Mosin-Nagant: If you can’t kill it with a Mosin-Nagant, it can’t be killed AR15: Safe to stow in poly bags AK47: Safe to stow in a rice paddy Mosin-Nagant: Safe to stow in a landfill AR15: 100 round beta c drum mags you can load with a speed loader AK47: 75 round drum magazine you have to reload individually by pressing a lever Mosin-Nagant: You can store 20 of them in a drum with about 1000 rounds on stripper clips AR15: Has a nice Airsoft copy AK47: Has a nice Airsoft copy Mosin-Nagant: Who needs Airsoft when you can fire blanks. AR15: Makes a nice paperweight AK47: Makes a nice doorstop Mosin-Nagant: Makes a nice baseball bat and way cheaper then aluminum AR15: Loyal following of people that have more money than sense. AK47: Loyal following of people that have a longer police record than the range of the rifle. Mosin-Nagant: Loyal following of people that have more rounds of ammo than they got hairs on all family members’ heads combined. AR-15: Your enemies will giggle AK-47: Your enemies will take cover and swear as they ready their weapons Mosin-Nagant: Your enemies will flatten themselves to the ground and offer up prayers of salvation to whatever god they believe in…then they will die. AR-15: Drop it from ten feet and it shatters. AK-47: Drop it from ten feet and it still works. Mosin-Nagant: Drop it from ten feet and it’s more lethal than a lawn dart. AR-15: You can melt it with a magnifying glass. AK-47: Under a magnifying glass, you can see the ingrained dirt. Mosin-Nagant: Under a magnifying glass, you can see the soaked-in BLOOD. AR-15: Safe, Semiautomatic, Full-Auto (more like full-JAM) AK-47: Safe(dubious), Semiautomatic, Full-Auto Mosin-Nagant: Kill, Maim, Destroy AR-15: When you run out of ammo, duck for cover and spend 15 minutes cleaning and reloading AK-47: You could probably rig it up to fire chain-linked ammo Mosin-Nagant: When you run out of ammo (never) you can shoot chaff and langrage from it (wikipedia that) AR-15: My daddy bought me this weapon for my birthday AK-47: I saved two weeks’ paychecks to buy this. Mosin-Nagant: I think it was free… AR-15: My rifle floated away in the flood AK-47: My rifle was submerged for three weeks by the flood and still works Mosin-Nagant: I fired my rifle and the flood waters parted… AR15: You keep your bayonet in the kitchen because it is a good steak knife AK47: You keep your bayonet in your toolbox because it is a good wire cutter Mosin-Nagant: You no longer fix your bayonet in the house because the last time you did you poked a hole in the ceiling when you stood up AR15: For $1000 you can get one AK47: For $1000 you can get two and 300 rounds of ammo Mosin-Nagant: For $1000 you can get 16 of them plus a Bulgarian armory’s worth of surplus ammo AR15: Can start brush fires with incendiary ammunition. AK47: Can start brush fires by dropping it after the handguard catches fire. Mosin-Nagant: Can start brush fires by firing from anything lower than a kneeling position. AR15: Built with custom parts, nice trigger, all the bells and whistles $1500+ AK47: Modified with aftermarket and 1,000 rounds of ammo not even $1500 Mosin-Nagant: Stock, with 1,000 rounds maybe $300, meaning you get $1200 to spend on more beer AR15: Takes a few men out in a sweeper movement AK47: Takes most men out in a sweeper movement Mosin-Nagant: Shoot one the sonic boom will handle the rest AR15: Used in negotiations AK47: Reason for negotiations Mosin-Nagant: Negotiator AR15: I think I felt it kick AK47: Kinda like a 20 guage Mosin-Nagant: Dislocation Mosin-Nagant with heavy ball: Where’s my freaking shoulder AR15: Takes 3 rounds to take out your enemy AK47: takes 30 rounds sprayed and hopefully you hit your target Mosin-Nagant: 1 shot, 50 kills AR15: More options than a custom Rolls-Royce. No two guns are alike. AK47: Same number of options as a Toyota Corolla. Most guns look alike. Mosin-Nagant: Options: You want a bayonet with that? The limits of customizing a- AR15: How much $ you got. AK47: What you can find in the Tapco catalog. Mosin-Nagant: How much duct tape Bubba’s got. AR15: Such light recoil, you could put on over your balls and fire. AK47: Recoil manageable enough for anyone to use it. Mosin-Nagant: Recoil that registers as small tremors in the earth itself. AR15: Bullet starts tumbling the moment it meets sufficient resistance, like paper AK47: Bullet will continue trajectory until it hits something solid, like a deer Mosin-Nagant: It keeps going and going and going…. AR15: You probably drive a Lexus AK47: If you’re lucky to possess a vehicle, it’s referred to as a “Technical” Mosin-Nagant: You hang truck-balls off your trailer hitch, and you’re proud of them. AR15: Lots of fancy optics available AK47: You can bolt some stuff to the side Mosin-Nagant: Who cares about optics when the barrel is long enough to smack the enemy over the head without even leaving your foxhole. AR15: Used by special forces to kill terrorists AK47: Used by revolutionaries and any two bit nation’s illiterate conscripts to kill each other Mosin-Nagant: Used by Simo Häyhä to kill Russian conscripts AR15: Requires over 1000 rounds to break in AK47: May need some breaking in Mosin-Nagant: The stripper clips require more breaking in AR15: Can take down smaller sized game. AK47: Can take down average sized game. Mosin-Nagant: Can take down satellites. AR15: Invented 50 years ago by a consummate engineer AK47: Invented 60 years ago by wounded tank sergeant Mosin-Nagant: Invented 117 years ago by two drunks on a budget. AR15: Star wars AK47: Holy wars Mosin-Nagant: Class wars AR15: Makes small holes AK47: Makes big holes Mosin-Nagant: Makes black holes AR15: Nice lightweight ammo can be carried in quantity. AK47: You can carry a chest pouch with lots of mags with no problem. Mosin-Nagant: Ammo is also used in tanks, and larger artillery pieces. Domestic uses of the bayonet: AR15: You affix it to your rifle and use it as a dibble to plant tulip bulbs in the garden. AK47: You affix it to your rifle and use it to trim low-hanging tree branches. Mosin-Nagant: You affix it to your rifle, accidentally stab it into the ceiling and bring down a square foot of plaster, and spend the next week sleeping on the couch because your wife is pissed off at you. AR15: Comes in Pink Hello Kitty and Barbie AK47: Comes in Pink Hello Kitty Mosin-Nagant: What’s pink? AR15: Iran-Contra was a cover-up AK47: Afghanistan (1980) was a cover-up Mosin-Nagant: Chernobyll was a cover-up You call the thing with the ammo in it a “clip” and… AR15: Your buddies glare at you and don’t speak to you for a month. AK47: Your buddies smile at you with their gold teeth and “blast another cap.” Mosin-Nagant: Your buddies smile at you because it’s one of the few times you all get to call something a “clip”… and be right. AR15: Clean with fancy lubes and solvents with special tools. AK47: Clean? In Soviet Russia AK clean you! Mosin-Nagant: Squirt some Windex down the bore. Ready for another 500 rounds tomorrow! AR15: You can be an expert with this rifle after basic training AK47: You can be an expert with this rifle after a seminar at the Holiday Inn on AKs Mosin-Nagant: You can be an expert with this rifle after spending 30 minutes on the internet reading forums, and watching youtube videos AR15: Can shoot a squirrel and have a great meal AK47: Can shoot a squirrel and have some meat left to eat. Mosin-Nagant: There is a tail left around here somewhere. AR15: Puts some countries air force to shame AK47: Used by countries who can’t afford an air force Mosin-Nagant: Could be used to take down an air force AR15: Shoot one and you’ll be owning one soon! AK47: Shoot one and you will buy some high capacity magazines and 1000 rounds of ammo Mosin-Nagant: Shoot one and you will own 15 and want another! AR15: Goes pew pew pew AK47: Goes pow pow pow Mosin-Nagant: Goes BOOOOOOOM! AR15: Made by a stoned Eugene AK47: Made by an injured Kalashnikov Mosin-Nagant: Made by a drunken Belgian and a crazy Ivan Owners drink of choice AR15: Cognac AK47: Malt liquor Mosin-Nagant: Brake cleaner AR15: Makes a tiny hole with no fragmentation or undue extra injury, in accordance with the Geneva Convention AK47: Makes a big hole and sometimes flings severed body parts around, not in accordance with the Geneva Convention Mosin-Nagant: One of the reasons the Geneva Convention was written AR15: Can shoot it off your head and it won’t kill you AK47: Shoot it off your head and you die Mosin-Nagant: Shoot if from your shoulder and you need it popped back into place AR15: Used to kill Enemies of the State. AK47: Used by Enemies of the State. Mosin-Nagant: Enemy at the Gates. AR15: Good for shooting poodles. AK47: Good for shooting enemies of the state Mosin-Nagant: Good for shooting light armored vehicles AR15: Keeps gunsmiths in business AK47: Keeps drug dealers and terrorists in business Mosin-Nagant: Keeps Chiropractors in business AR15: Built like a Toy. AK47: Built like a Sewing Machine. Mosin-Nagant: Built like a Tank! AR15: Too much Plastic. AK47: Too Much Sheet metal. Mosin-Nagant: Too much of everything! AR15: stays in the Vault. AK47: not allowed in the vault. Mosin-Nagant: Can be used to Pole Vault! AR15: In your Heart you think it’s ugly. AR15: In your Heart you know it’s ugly. Mosin-Nagant: You’re afraid to call it ugly! AR15: It doesn’t go anywhere near <shudder> water… Unless you’re drinking Evian AK47: If water touches it, it would mistake it for a cleaning solvent and fall apart Mosin-Nagant: Row-row-row your boat, gently down the Volga… AR15: If it gets in the Mekong river, you need to clean it before firing. AK47: If it gets in the Mekong river, shake the water out before firing. Mosin-Nagant: Used as an oar to paddle up and down the Mekong river AR15: Used to attack soldiers building a bridge across the Mekong AK47: Used to protect soldiers building a bridge across the Mekong Mosin-Nagant: Used to actually build the bridge across the Mekong. AR15: Plastics make it possible AK47: Sheet metal make it possible Mosin-Nagant: Driftwood make it possible AR15: Nice useful little round. AK47: Very functional round. Mosin-Nagant: Anti Tank Round AR15: Useful against unarmored foe AK47: Useful against armored foe Mosin-Nagant: Useful against foe on the other side of the battlefield! AR15: Useful for hosing down forward edge of the battle area… AK47: Useful for hosing down sky over forward edge of the battle area… Mosin-Nagant: Useful for hosing down rear of the battle area, enemy reserves and basic training camps at home… AR15: Thousands of moving parts, held together by hundreds of bolts, screws, and precision welds. AK47: Several dozen moving parts, held together by a few screws and some drunken Ivan’s light-sabering with an acetylene torch. Mosin-Nagant: TWO MOVING PARTS. TWO SCREWS. . AR15: Owner votes for John McCain AK47: Owner prays for Barack Hussein Osama Mosin-Nagant: Owner can overthrow the government no matter who becomes president. AR15: One tenth the firepower at 10 times the price AK47: Half the Firepower at twice the price Mosin-Nagant: 10 times the firepower at one tenth the price AR15: Turns little rocks into pebbles AK47: Turns big rocks into little rocks Mosin-Nagant: Makes molehills out of mountains AR15: One inch groups at 100 yards. AK47: Five to six inch groups at 100 yards. Mosin-Nagant: Muzzle is one inch from target at 100 yards. AR15: Designs drawn on blueprint paper by stoner and a team of experts in a R&D facility AK47: Designs drawn on notebook paper by Kalashnikov in a Soviet hospital Mosin-Nagant: Designs drawn on cocktail napkins by a drunken Sergei Mosin-Nagant in a bar AR15: Clean with a bunch of cloths, patches, picks, brushes and don’t loose the small parts. Clean every 100 rounds. AK47: Run a patch down the barrel, wipe out the chamber every few months. Mosin-Nagant: Throw it in the dishwasher every couple years. AR15: New shooters love it because of good ergonomics and light recoil. AK47: New shooters love it because of light recoil. Mosin-Nagant: New shooters required to sign a waiver-absolving owner of physical damage incurred from recoil AR15: Usually equipped with flash hider to reduce muzzle flash. AK47: Can be equipped with flash hider to reduce muzzle flash. Mosin-Nagant: Muzzle flash can be used to summon the mother ship. AR15: Can be used to defend home against crooks AK47: Can be used to defend Oil Tanker against Pirates Mosin-Nagant: Can Replace one of the Deck Guns on the Kirov Class Battle cruiser AR-15: Defenders AK-47: Invaders Mosin-Nagant: Victors AR15: High cost, high maintenance. AK47: Low cost, low maintenance. Mosin-Nagant: What are these cost and maintenance things you speak of? AR15: Your rifle takes a few hours to sight in, starting at 50 yard and moving up to 200, making minute adjustments with a small screwdriver. AK47: You slide your rear sight around until you hit the target. Mosin-Nagant: You hit your rifle with a hammer to sight it. AR15: Arm of the free world AK47: Arm of everybody else Mosin-Nagant: Arm of Chuck Norris AR15: Politicians fear it. AK47: Media fears it. Mosin-Nagant: Zombies fear it! At an indoor range. AR15: Gets people’s attention because of it’s wonderful accuracy. AK47: Gets people’s attention because of it’s rugged reliability. Mosin-Nagant: Gets people’s attention because muzzle flash sets off sprinkler system! As for accurizing. AR15: You buy match grade components installed by professional gunsmith and spend thousands of dollars. AK47: You buy GOOD ammo and optics and spend hundreds of dollars. Mosin-Nagant: You use an empty soda can, some sand paper and spend seven bucks! AR15: You can put one hole in a paper target at 100 meters with 30 rounds. AK47: You can put a .30″ hole through 12” of oak, if you can hit it. Mosin-Nagant: You can knock down everyone else’s target with the shock wave of your bullet going downrange. AR15: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a great whiffle bat. AK47: When out of ammo your rifle will nominally pass as a club. Mosin-Nagant: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, pike, boat oar, tent pole, or firewood. AR15: What’s recoil? AK47: Recoil is manageable, even fun. Mosin-Nagant: Recoil is often used to relocate shoulders thrown out by the previous shot. AR15: Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of minute of angle. AK47: Your sight adjustment goes to “10”, and you’ve never bothered moving it. Mosin-Nagant: Your sight adjustment goes to 12 miles and you’ve actually tried it. AR15: After a day at the range, you detail strip your rifle and thoroughly clean and lubricate it with only the best products. AK47: After a day of shooting out back you run a quick patch through the bore and throw your rifle in the back of your truck. Mosin-Nagant: Cleaning….and maintenance? AR15: Millennium Falcon AK47: Star Destroyer Mosin-Nagant: The Death Star As for accessories. AR15: You have a never ending list of high dollar tacticool accessories. AK47: You have a never ending list of Chinese made tacticool accessories. Mosin-Nagant: You have carry strap and ammo what more you need comrade? AR15: Cost a lot of money AK47: Cost some money Mosin-Nagant: free with purchase of bayonet AR15: Backordered. AK47: Backordered. Mosin-Nagant: Mail ordered. AR15: When out of ammo you would rather die than risk damaging your $1200 rifle buy using it as a club. AK47: When out of ammo your rifle makes a nice club. Mosin-Nagant: Your rifle is a club that can shoot people. AR15: When on patrol in Vietnam ammo is so light you can carry around 900 rounds of ammo with you. AK47: When patrolling your warlord’s territory, you carry all the ammo you need in the back of a technical. Mosin-Nagant: When sent to battle at Stalingrad you are only issued a stripper clip of ammunition and told that you would find your rifle laying on the ground. AR15: Got it by joining army AK47: Got it with one paycheck Mosin-Nagant: Got it by saving beer cans On prairie dogs: AR15: You sit back with your buddies poopin them all day long 651hits 3 misses. AK47: You and another person go to a dog-town fire 4,000 rounds and each get one be cause they were 8 feet away and deaf. Mosin-Nagant: You go with 3 other people get the first shot at the first P-dog you see and wipe out the entire colony, leaving a crater that the people who find it claim was a meteor impact. Regarding muzzle blast: AR15: Makes a popping sound that is hardly noticed at a public range. AK47: Makes a hearty boom that usually gets noticed at a public range. Mosin-Nagant: Makes the Earth tremble and two guys in Bavaria look at each other and ask “vat da hell vas dat?!” AR15: Looks like a toy AK47: Looks cobbled together from spare parts Mosin-Nagant: Looks like a Kentucky Musket of DOOM! AR15: Sworn at by three generations of American soldiers and Marines AK47: Brought back as a proof of kill by Carlos Hathcock Mosin-Nagant: Carried by Samo Hayho, Vasili Ziatsev and feared on both sides of the battle line in the hands of snipers. AR15: Flash suppressed, super stealthy AK47: Why worry about stealth when you and your comrades can pour a wall of lead onto the enemy? Mosin-Nagant: Blinds anybody within 150 meters who’s not wearing welding goggles. AR15: Can use the bayonet to whittle AK47: Can use the bayonet to kill an enemy or butcher food Mosin-Nagant: Bayonet used to cut the sheet metal parts they use to make AR’s and AK’s AR15: Underslung grenade launcher can take out a dug-in enemy at 300 meters AK47: Underslung grenade launcher makes a lot of noise and a huge dirt crater Mosin-Nagant: Who needs grenades when your bullets are so big they can kill tanks? AR15: Inspired by science fiction AK47: Inspired by a need for a reliable, selectable-fire weapon Mosin-Nagant: Inspired by men with balls. Men with HUGE, HAIRY BALLS AR15: Comprised of several hundred moving parts, usually falls victim to Murphy’s law AK47: Comprised of as few moving parts as possible, almost impossible to break unless something goes REALLY REALLY WRONG (which might IMPROVE the accuracy) Mosin-Nagant: Has only one moving part, is held together by only two screws, and damned well outshoots both of the above. AR15: Rust is your mortal enemy, you clean your gun five times a day. AK47: Rust might become a problem in a few years, you clean your gun once a month. Mosin-Nagant: Rust makes your rifle look more authentic. AR15: You clean your rifle with molecularly engineered precision $1000-ounce synthetic lubricant AK47: WD-40 is acceptable Mosin-Nagant: If everything else runs out you can clean your rifle with your own piss With regard to sound volume: AR15: Suitable for use with a sound suppressor because its tiny bullet is already quiet. AK47: No need for a sound suppressor because the enemy will be flat on the ground with their hands over their ears, hiding from the sheer volume of fire. Mosin-Nagant: You don’t need a sound suppressor, because after the first shot the enemy will be totally deaf anyway. How long does it take to learn to care for your rifle? AR15: It will take a drill sergeant about a week to teach you what you need to know about how to disassemble, reassemble and maintain your rifle. AK47: A good gunnery sergeant can teach you how to care for one in about 4 hours. Mosin-Nagant: You can learn how to take it apart and put it back together in about 15 minutes with the manual and a couple of YouTube videos in front of you. AR15: Must be carefully cleaned every 100 rounds or so. AK47: Only have to worry about cleaning if using Wolf ammo Mosin-Nagant: Cleaning? Consists of getting liquored up on vodka and peeing down the barrel to get rid of corrosive salts from milsurp primers. AR15: Opened by pushing 2 pins AK47: Opened with a swift kick Mosin-Nagant: Opened with a 2X4 and a ball peen hammer AR15: Mostly made out of expensive polymers AK47: Mostly made out of cheap stamped metal and particle board Mosin-Nagant: Mostly made out of “whatever the f*ck the comrades could find lying around the People’s Factory” AR15: can probably put together a nice one, due to the popularity of ownership, for under $1,000 AK47: Can probably get a decent one, or refurbished one, for under $500. Mosin-Nagant: Can probably buy rifle, 440 rounds of ammo, and a case of Windex for under $200. AR15: Won’t work unless you clean it every day AK47: Should be cleaned at least once a year Mosin-Nagant: Was last cleaned by a Russian conscript in Berlin in 1945 AR15: If the firing pin breaks you send it to the factory for repairs AK47: If the firing pin breaks you buy a new one Mosin-Nagant: If the firing pin breaks you just screw it deeper into the bolt AR15: Your accessories cost more than the rifle AK47: All your accessories cost around $300 Mosin-Nagant: All your accessories come free with the rifle AR15: Accountant’s Rifle AK47: Factory Worker’s Rifle Mosin-Nagant: If you can fill out an application, you can probably already afford it AR15: Tax return will get it AK47: Tax return will get you 2 plus mags Mosin-Nagant: Tax Return will get you a case plus enough ammo to last you till doomsday AR15: Made when jet passenger flight was fairly regular AK47: Made when knowing how to fly could make you an officer Mosin-Nagant: Made when hot air balloons were considered the ultimate flight technology AR15: Buttstock is collapsible, only used to aid in shooting the rifle AK47: Buttstock is also good for knocking some oppressor’s teeth out Mosin-Nagant: Buttstock is good for use as a sledgehammer, crutch, club, or boat oar ————— [IMG]https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/StuffYouKnow.jpg[/IMG][B]Now that you killed 2 hours reading that..[/B] head over to [URL='https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2009/11/04/stuff-you-know-if-you-have-an-ak-ar-mosin-nagant/']Stu[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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